Slow worm as a pet?????

[scouse62]

ok thanks will get back 2 all 2 morrow nite rob

[iminei]

I don't care if we are off-thread, cos after all it is your thread, you started it,
Actually Posie...Its my thread, I started it, and its meant to be about Slow worms not pond life...Why don't you and Scouse62 get a room somewhere!
Arrivederci!!!

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by scouse62

you wont get slow worms if there are grass snakes end of story rob even if im a scouser

I hope iminei doesn't mind, but can I just butt in here to correct the above post in this thread ?

For a number of years I ran an old lady's private nature reserve of only 3 acres but it had one of the highest concentrations of adder anywhere in Suffolk, due I hope, to the way I created safe basking areas, and making artificial hibernaculi (sorry if that is the wrong plural) - alright, homes then !

To help me count the reptiles, I had about 10 tins scattered over the site and I regularly used to see several adders, a grass snake, and slow worms under the same tin apparently quite happy with only 6 - 12 inches separating them.
I know grass snakes eat slow worms, but here they all were 'as happy as can be'.

Neil.

[iminei]

I hope iminei doesn't mind

no problem, fairplay, posting about invertebrates, slow worms, grass snakes, habitat etc etc is what we should be doing on this forum.
its the mating rituals of elderly liverpudlians that should be taken elsewhere.

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by iminei

I hope iminei doesn't mind

no problem, fairplay, posting about invertebrates, slow worms, grass snakes, habitat etc etc is what we should be doing on this forum.
its the mating rituals of elderly liverpudlians that should be taken elsewhere.

Quite rite...loved your comment..

Posie and Rob there is a facility on this site called a private message

Talking of grass snakes, adders and slow worms I would love any one of them I have only ever seen 1 slow worm that was in Cornwall it was on a freshly mown path and had lost its tail so I put in the long grass next to the path out of sight.

[posie]

Originally Posted by iminei

I don't care if we are off-thread, cos after all it is your thread, you started it,
Actually Posie...Its my thread, I started it, and its meant to be about Slow worms not pond life...Why don't you and Scouse62 get a room somewhere!
Arrivederci!!!

Yes, I am so very sorry that I made a mistake, I was getting mixed up with Rob's thread about newts. Please forgive me...
However, the tone of your recent posts on here have totally surprised and upset me..because if you read a previous post of mine, you will see that I, wrongly thinking it was Rob who started the threadhad asked Rob's permission to ask the mods to move it to an appropriate place,..However, that action obviously does not now apply. There is a lot more I would like to say to you iminei, but, unlike you, I shall restrain myself...Posie

[Deb London]

What is WRONG with everybody today, LOL?!

Elaine, you have to come to a reserve I know in North London for easy slow worms. It's only open on a Sunday. I love that - let the wildlife be! Keep the humans out. Yeah?

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Deb London

What is WRONG with everybody today, LOL?!

Elaine, you have to come to a reserve I know in North London for easy slow worms. It's only open on a Sunday. I love that - let the wildlife be! Keep the humans out. Yeah?

Sounds good at least there is more chance of seeing things then if the public are kept out most of the time..I think..
There is a tiny reserve near me that supposed to have them but they can walk past me and I wouldn't see them..

Yes lighten up everyone it was only a bit of fun I am guilty of this too sometimes..

[posie]

With regard to slow worms in compost heaps..I have decided to make several heaps, possibly dozens, all around the boundaries, and elsewhere, in the hope of accomodating some slow worms, but I will make them furthest away from where I have seen grass snakes. My patch is nearly 1/5 mile across, and 1/4 mile deep, so there should be a chance of having both, who knows, maybe they are already both here...

Fairplay... Neil, I do have several sheets of corrugated tin (weighted down 'cos of the wind) scattered around the place, but I have not looked under them, maybe I should !..and please tell me what you had for 'basking areas'..I could google it but as you have had personal experience, I would appreciate your advice to help me make this patch slow worm friendly..

and 'everything' friendly for that matterPosie

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by posie

With regard to slow worms in compost heaps..I have decided to make several heaps, possibly dozens, all around the boundaries, and elsewhere, in the hope of accomodating some slow worms, but I will make them furthest away from where I have seen grass snakes. My patch is nearly 1/5 mile across, and 1/4 mile deep, so there should be a chance of having both, who knows, maybe they are already both here...

Fairplay... Neil, I do have several sheets of corrugated tin (weighted down 'cos of the wind) scattered around the place, but I have not looked under them, maybe I should !..and please tell me what you had for 'basking areas'..I could google it but as you have had personal experience, I would appreciate your advice to help me make this patch slow worm friendly..

and 'everything' friendly for that matterPosie

You could put a heap of loose rocks rubble like stuff builders leave lying around near the corrugated sheets as I have seen grass snakes in those..